List $54.95

Written by Elizabeth Berg - Performed by Beth Fowler - Unabridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES - 5 hours, 8 minutes

Publisher, Chivers Audio Books (July 1998)

NOTE: This audiobook is packaged in a high impact PVC 'LIBRARY EDITION' case for years of use and storage.

The printed edition of this title is an Oprah's Book Club Selection!

Booklist (Donna Seaman) says:

"Berg's impeccable prose gives voice to that element in our psyche that enables us to cope with the impossible. In her last novel, Talk Before Sleep , the impossible was terminal cancer. Here tragedy is tinged with a painful sense of the absurd: the narrator's husband, Jay, is hit on the head by ice falling off a building, an accident that sends him into a coma. Lainey loves Jay with her whole heart and refuses even to consider the possibility that this condition could lead inexorably toward death. Lainey goes to the nursing home every day, bringing Jay flowers, his favorite clothes, and their two confused young daughters. And she talks to him, touches him, tries to draw him back to the world of the living. At home, Lainey tempers her fear with fantasies about an all-knowing "ghost woman" who encourages her to be strong. In less capable hands, this story line would be unbearably mawkish, but Berg writes on a higher plane. We can't control life, Berg tells us, but it sure helps to have faith."

"It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a huge chunk of ice fell off the rood, and it hit him in the head…" Jay Berman lingers in a coma as his wife Lainey waits for him to recover. She hopes to reach him with reminders of their life together: sweet-smelling flowers, his softly textured shirt, and spices from their kitchen. Through her ordeal, Lainey is sustained by her relationships with two very special women, each of whom teaches her about friendship and the power of hope.